The cardiovascular scamdemic: The epidemic spread of cardiovascular treatment scams and misinformation.

Recently, some cardiovascular surgeons have been increasingly using social media for marketing, often employing misleading terminology. This trend, which we termed the "cardiovascular scamdemic," involves the widespread dissemination of deceptive advertisements for cardiovascular treatments, resembling an epidemic. Exposure to such misinformation not only endangers patients, who naturally rely on information from professional sources, but also erodes public trust in medical ethics and scientific integrity.

Robotic repair of atrial septal defect with partial pulmonary venous return anomaly: Our 5 year experience.

Introduction: Partial pulmonary venous return anomalies (PPVRA) were not considered as a good candidate for robotic surgery in early time of robotic cardiac surgery. In this study, we present our experience in patients undergoing robotic atrial septal defect (ASD) and PPVRA surgery.

Methods: Between November 2014 and January 2020, data of 21 patients underwent robotic ASD with PPVRA was collected.

Early- and mid-term results of cryoablation of atrial fibrillation concomitant with robotic mitral valve surgery.

Objective: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia, which is also associated with mitral valve disease. Surgical ablation is still known to be an important procedure in restoring sinus rhythm (SR) concomitant with mitral valve surgery (MVS). In this study, we aimed to pres-ent our early- and mid-term result of AF cryoablation during robotic MVS.

Comparison of postoperative outcomes between robotic mitral valve replacement and conventional mitral valve replacement.

Background: Robotic mitral valve surgery continues to become widespread all over the world in direct proportion to the developing technology. In this study, we aimed to compare the postoperative results of robotic mitral valve replacement and conventional mitral valve replacement.

Methods: A total of consecutive 130 patients who underwent robotic mitral valve replacement and conventional mitral valve replacement with full sternotomy between 2014 and 2020 were included in our study.

Unrecognized indication for robot-assisted cardiac surgery: Patients with acute psychotic disorders.

Patients with acute psychotic disorders are often considered as inappropriate candidates for cardiac surgery as well as for other surgical interventions. Post-operative care and patient compliance, which are the main problems associated with such patients, are the most important issues for conventional cardiac surgery. Robot-assisted cardiac surgery may be a new solution in this respect.

Huge Intravascular Tumor Extending to the Heart: Leiomyomatosis.

Intravenous leiomyomatosis (IVL) is a rare neoplasm characterized by histologically benign-looking smooth muscle cell tumor mass, which is growing within the intrauterine and extrauterine venous system. In this report we aimed to present an unusual case of IVL, which is originating from iliac vein and extended throughout to right cardiac chambers. A 49-year-old female patient, who was treated with warfarin sodium due to right iliac vein thrombosis, was admitted to our department with intermittent dyspnea, palpitation, and dizziness.

Oxaliplatin Induced Digital Ischemia and Necrosis.

Introduction. Digital ischemia is a rare complication of several chemotherapeutic medications. We aimed to present a patient with digital ischemia, secondary to a new generation chemotherapeutic drug, oxaliplatin.

Preoperative frontal QRS-T angle is an independent correlate of hospital length of stay and predictor of haemodynamic support requirement following off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Objectives: With the adoption of novel operative techniques and aggressive care protocols that facilitate earlier extubation and mobilization of patients, postoperative length of stay (LOS) following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) has declined. However, there is paucity of information regarding preoperative electrocardiographic predictors of LOS following CABG. In this study, we investigated whether frontal QRS-T angle, which is an abnormal repolarization marker in prediction of various cardiovascular events, was an independent correlate of postoperative hospital LOS for off-pump CABG.

Autonomic imbalance assessed by time-domain heart rate variability indices in primary Raynaud's phenomenon.

Objectives: The pathogenesis of primary Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) seems to be multifactorial and autonomic nervous dysfunction is one factor. Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the most reliable parameters to demonstrate autonomic dysfunction. Our aim was to evaluate the time-domain HRV in patients with primary RP.

Platelet indices may be correlated with severity of vasospastic disorders.

BACKGROUND Vasospastic disorders are common worldwide. In daily practice, routine blood samples are used for several investigations. In this study we aimed to determine the possible correlations between lymphocyte count, platelet indices, and the severity of vasospastic disorders.

How can follow-up of patients with Raynaud phenomenon be optimized?

BACKGROUND Raynaud phenomenon (RP) is common worldwide and presents diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. We aimed to share our experience with optimizing of patient follow-up by using the cold-stimulation test (CST). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data of 81 patients admitted with RP symptomatology were collected.

Adding Doppler ultrasonography to the follow-up of patients with vasospastic disorder improves objectivity.

Background: Assessing therapeutic efficacy and patient satisfaction objectively and quantitatively has always been a problem in patients with vasospastic disorders. We aimed to present the additive value of ultrasonographic assessment of peripheral arteries secondary to cold stimulation, as a test for treatment efficacy during follow-up.

Material And Methods: Arterial blood flow rates were measured from radial artery with Doppler USG in patients who presented to our department with vasospastic disorders.

Frontal planar QRS/T angle can be a prognostic factor in the early postoperative period of patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery.

Background: Wide QRS/T angle reflects the ventricular repolarization heterogeneity and has been found in association with cardiac morbidity and mortality in various study populations. However, literature data about the availability of QRS/T angle in patients undergoing cardiac surgery has not yet been available.

Methods: A total of 157 patients who underwent isolated coronary artery bypass surgery were included in this study.

Acute arterial thrombosis following chemotherapy in a patient with a gastric carcinoma.

The pathogenesis of in situ thrombosis in cancer patients is not well known. Possible factors include endothelial damage, decreasing levels of anticoagulant factors and increasing levels of pro-coagulants. In the literature, the incidence of arterial thrombosis in cancer patients is reported to be 3.

Sodium nitrite and cardioprotective effect in pig regional myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury model.

Objectives: The present study was designed to investigate the cardioprotective effect of sodium nitrite (NaNO2) and sodium nitrate (NaNO3) against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in a pig regional ischemia model.

Material And Methods: Eighteen pigs were randomly divided into three groups as control (Group 1), sodium nitrite (Group 2) and sodium nitrate (Group 3) groups. Before the exploration of the heart, blood samplings were taken for alanine aminotranspherase (ALT), aspartate aminotranspherase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), creatinine kinase-muscle band (CK-MB), troponin-t, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), malondialdehyde (MDA) and nitrite/nitrate (NO2-/NO3-) in all groups (T0).

Multiple osteochondromatosis complicated with a popliteal artery pseudoaneurysm.

In this article, we present a 21-year-old male patient who presented with swelling and pain located to right lower thigh and knee. Physical examination and subsequent diagnostic work-up revealed a pseudoaneurysm associated with an osteochondroma at lower thigh. This complication should be considered in young patients with a mass at knee and lower thigh region.

A stable prostacyclin analogue (iloprost) in the treatment of Buerger's disease: a prospective analysis of 150 patients.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy and of iloprost in the treatment of Buerger's disease.

Methods: In this prospective study, 158 patients with rest pain and/or ischemic ulcers from 17 clinics were administered 1 ng/kg/min intravenous iloprost for 28-days. The primary endpoint was complete healing without pain or major amputation at 24 weeks.

Proanthocyanidin prevents myocardial ischemic injury in adult rats.

Background: Proanthocyanidin is a bioflavonoid known to have protective effect against oxidative injury. We investigated the cardioprotective effect of proanthocyanidin.

Material/methods: Thirty-two Rattus Norvegicus rats were categorized equally as the control group (CG), proanthocyanidin group (PCG), ischemia group (IG) and proanthocyanidin-treated group (PCT).

Cilostazol, a type III phosphodiesterase inhibitor, reduces ischemia/reperfusion-induced spinal cord injury.

Background: Spinal cord injury is still a devastating complication after surgical repair of thoracoabdominal aortic pathologies. In this study, we investigated the protective effect of cilostazol, a type III phosphodiesterase inhibitor, against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced spinal cord injury in rats.

Methods: Twenty-four rats were assigned to 3 experimental study groups: the control group (sham operation, n = 8); the ischemia group (nontreated, n = 8), which underwent aortic occlusion without pharmacologic intervention; and the cilostazol-treated group (n = 8), which received 20 mg/kg cilostazol per day orally for 3 days before spinal ischemia.

Is there any cardioprotective role of Taurine during cold ischemic period following global myocardial ischemia?

Background: The aim of the present study was to investigate the cardioprotective effect of Taurine on the donor hearts during cold ischemic period.

Methods: 32 rats were divided into four groups (sham, taurine, ischemia, treatment group, 8 rats in each). All rats were fed with rat food for three weeks.